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"O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth! And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth."
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Phillips BrooksThe worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way — Phillips Brooks
"The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst."
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Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks
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Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
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"For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small."
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"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
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"The absence of sentimentalism in Christs relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching."
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"Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christs life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants."
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"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully."
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